Product Updates

Discover the latest features and improvements from Vantage Fit. Stay up-to-date with everything new.

Users receive a weekly summary email at the end of the challenge with the following information:

Key challenge details and overall progress.
A breakdown of task progress, points earned, and current league status.
A leaderboard overview, including upcoming challenge details and allocated points.

This structure ensures users stay updated on their achievements, milestones, and any areas where improvement is needed.

Wellness Leagues offers a year-round, 365-day wellness engagement program that categorizes employees into gold, silver, and bronze leagues based on their daily average steps. With Wellness Leagues:

HR professionals can set specific benchmarks, monitor league distributions, and analyze trends over time.
HRs can generate custom reports with demographic filters to support data-driven wellness initiatives.

Redeeming gift cards is now easier and more transparent. Users can clearly see any discounts or markups during the redemption process, enabling them to make informed decisions. This ensures a seamless and clear process when selecting and redeeming gift cards.

Users will receive real-time push notifications whenever they earn a badge, along with new challenge-completion badges added to their collection. This instant recognition fosters a sense of accomplishment and encourages continued engagement in future challenges.

With the ability to import historical heart-rate data from Apple Health, users can now enhance their workout analysis with more comprehensive insights. This integration allows users to explore how their heart rate varies with different activities, providing a clearer picture of their fitness patterns. By leveraging this data, the app can offer personalized health recommendations, helping users make more informed decisions for improved fitness and long-term cardiovascular health.

The wallet section now displays a detailed transaction history for redeemed gift cards, including:

Gift card redeemed
Points used
Redemption date
Remaining balance after redemption

This feature provides users with full visibility into their redemption activity and offers an organized and user-friendly experience.

Admins can now segment employees by department, age group, location, and gender, ensuring wellness campaigns reach the most relevant audiences. This feature allows organizations to:

Support diversity and inclusion goals by tailoring wellness programs to suit different employee groups.
Align wellness initiatives with broader organizational strategies.

Clients can choose to disable the entire wallet and redemption features for further program customization. This flexibility allows organizations to:

Ensure the platform aligns with internal policies and compliance requirements.
Simplify the user experience when rewards are not part of the wellness initiative.

The One-Time (Lite) Challenge Mode streamlines the process of engaging employees in step-based challenges by removing the need for health-profile setup. This approach accelerates onboarding for new users, making it perfect for short-term campaigns and special events. By eliminating unnecessary steps, this mode enhances participation and allows clients to quickly roll out wellness initiatives with minimal effort.

With the addition of active minutes tracking, the app now emphasizes high-effort physical activity, enabling HR teams to set challenges based on exercise intensity.

This feature encourages employees to focus on improving cardiovascular health by prioritizing quality over quantity of movement.
By promoting more meaningful exercise, it motivates employees to push their limits and achieve significant fitness milestones.

Admins can choose whether to allow or disable manual step logging, giving them control over how data is entered and maintained. This allows:

Ensures the integrity of the challenge data, preventing manipulation and ensuring that competition remains fair.
Strikes the right balance between organizational oversight and individual autonomy.

Users can now seamlessly import physical activity data from their connected devices, such as Garmin, Fitbit, Apple Watch, and more. To sync and import activity data, users just need to visit the "My Workouts" page within the app.

This feature supports a wide range of activities like running, cycling, swimming, yoga, gym workouts, and more.

Lab Report Upload & Workforce Health Insights

The new Lab Report module integrates Annual Health Checkups into VFit, enabling HRs to track employee health and make data-driven wellness decisions.

How it works:

HRs can upload blood test reports via secure SFTP.
Employees can upload reports directly through the app.

Our AI analyzes the reports to identify potential health risks, such as:

Disease risks (e.g., diabetes, hypertension)
Nutritional deficiencies (e.g., Vitamin D, Iron)
Wellness concerns (e.g., stress, cholesterol)

Activity Conversion & Manual Steps Entry with Deeplinking and Silent Authentication

Vantage Fit now enables users to convert logged activities into steps or manually add steps when tracking physical activities, with HR approval.

We have also introduced a new Deeplinking Architecture, allowing seamless app access via external links (e.g., WhatsApp) and Silent Authentication for a frictionless login experience.

Targeted Challenges by Disease Risk or Biomarker Deficiency

With the new Workforce Insights section, HRs and Admins can now target wellness challenges to employees based on their disease risk or biomarker deficiencies.

This allows for more personalized health initiatives, providing a tailored approach to employee wellness based on their specific health needs.

Smart Recognition now automatically celebrates the top 3 performers in challenges with system-generated announcements on the social feed.

We have also added a new Announcements Module in the Admin Dashboard, allowing HR teams to easily publish rich media content like images, PDFs, videos, and carousels.

Revamped App Homepage & Notification Bell

The app's homepage has been redesigned to offer a personalized, easy-to-navigate dashboard. It now includes:

A summary of the day's activities
Key wellness metrics (steps, active minutes, calories burned, mindful minutes, health vitals)
A highlight section showcasing recent social feed activities

Additionally, the new Notification Bell alerts users to updates and reminders directly within the app.

Vantage Fit has made progress tracking more personalized and dynamic. Users can now select any two custom metrics -Steps, Calories, Active Minutes, or Mindful Minutes to be displayed in their Rings.

The Rings now update in real time, eliminating the need to refresh the page or reopen the app.

Supports two customizable metrics
Instant real-time updates
Faster feedback for higher daily engagement

Workout tracking is now smoother for Apple Watch users. When a workout is completed on the device, Vantage Fit automatically triggers a “New Workout Completed” notification. This enables:

Automatic workout detection
Instant in-app notification
Simplified import experience

Vantage Fit has expanded wearable compatibility by enabling automatic import of workouts completed on Garmin devices.

Similar to steps syncing, Garmin workouts now seamlessly sync to the Challenge Server and count toward participation metrics.

Recognition and communication are now more powerful. HRs and Admins can publish announcements directly to the Vantage Fit Social Feed, supporting PDFs, links, videos, and image carousels.

Challenges can also be configured to automatically publish winner announcements on the Feed enabling consistent and automated recognition. This enables:

Social Feed announcements with rich media
Auto-publish challenge winner celebrations
Reduced manual effort for HR teams

The redesigned navigation focuses on a smoother user experience with a cleaner layout and polished icons. This improvement makes the app easier to navigate and enhances user engagement.

Simpler, cleaner layout and intuitive navigation.
Faster onboarding for new users.
Effortless navigation for veteran users.

Instant reward credit upon task completion to keep motivation high and foster healthy habits.

Immediate credit of Vantage Points for eligible tasks.
Real-time rewards provide instant recognition.
Boosts engagement and encourages consistent participation.

Users now have the flexibility to edit or completely delete any logged workouts or activities. This feature allows for easy corrections to calorie values, workout details, or any other entries, ensuring that users’ data remains accurate and personalized. The ability to modify or remove logged activity gives users greater control over their records and helps maintain trust in the platform’s data.

Track sleep manually or import data from Apple Health, offering holistic health insights beyond just physical activity.

Manually log or import sleep data.
Enhanced sleep data supports personalized wellness recommendations.
Integrates rest into the wellness journey.

Personalize measurement preferences by choosing between metric or imperial units for a tailored user experience.

Choose between metric or imperial units.
Customize units for better comfort and accuracy.
Accommodates regional and personal preferences.

Users can now create customized solo wellness programs that focus on specific areas such as physical health, mental wellness, or financial well-being. These personalized programs are designed to:

Align with individual goals, ensuring that each user’s unique needs are addressed.
By offering highly targeted wellness plans, this feature increases the relevance of the content and long term adherence.

For a more inclusive experience, the app now tracks wheelchair workouts, allowing users to log their wheelchair activities and include them in challenges and wellness summaries.

This promotes inclusivity and accessibility for all users.
Ensures equitable wellness opportunities.

For privacy-conscious users, the ability to hide stats from public leaderboards ensures confidential participation.

Hides leaderboard stats for privacy.
Promotes trust and encourages broader participation.
Allows for anonymous engagement in challenges.

Dedicated chat groups focused on specific wellness topics, such as Smoking Cessation or support for New Mothers, are now available. These chat groups provide a space for users to connect, share resources, and offer mutual support. By offering these targeted, topic-based groups, the platform fosters sustained engagement and facilitates knowledge exchange, helping participants feel supported throughout their wellness journey.

Within each challenge, participants can now engage in a group chat, sharing images, links, videos, and updates with others in the challenge. This feature enhances the social experience of participating in wellness challenges by turning individual efforts into collaborative experiences. By allowing users to communicate in real-time, this feature creates an interactive environment where participants can support each other, share tips, and celebrate their progress together.

For enhanced privacy and compliance, users can now join the platform without sharing personal data, and their health profiles will remain disabled until they choose to share them. This approach ensures that user data is protected from the start, aligning with GDPR and other data protection regulations. It allows users to engage with the platform while maintaining control over their data, minimizing any concerns related to privacy.

The new leaderboard search feature enables users to quickly find their colleagues on the leaderboard by searching for their names or specific criteria.

This makes it easier to track peer performance and celebrate successes in real-time.
The feature enhances friendly competition within the organization by encouraging social interaction and connection.
By streamlining the process of locating colleagues on the leaderboard, it helps foster a more interactive and community-driven approach to wellness challenges.

SSO Enhancements (Okta, Azure, ADP, SAML)

The platform now supports expanded single sign-on (SSO) compatibility with major enterprise identity providers such as Okta, Azure, ADP, and SAML, providing users with a seamless and secure login experience. This improvement reduces the friction during the authentication process and enhances the overall security of user accounts. By integrating with these trusted enterprise systems, the platform ensures secure access while simplifying the login experience for corporate users, thereby improving compliance and strengthening data security.

A new offerings marketplace has been introduced, offering a variety of wellness resources, including EAP solutions and discounted wellness products. It provides:

Access to EAP solutions, wellness products, and therapy services.
A comprehensive wellness ecosystem with diverse options.
Empowers users to choose the resources that best fit their needs.

The app automatically syncs workouts completed on your Apple Watch, ensuring every activity is tracked without the need for manual input. This feature boosts data accuracy and simplifies fitness tracking by seamlessly integrating with the Apple Watch. Users can maintain an up-to-date record of their progress with ease, making it more convenient to stay on top of their fitness goals.

This feature offers short, impactful wellness snippets anytime, anywhere, to make wellness education part of your daily routine.

Quick, easily digestible wellness content for on-the-go learning.
Fits effortlessly into busy schedules for continuous engagement.
Promotes sustained wellness education in a flexible, time-efficient format.

The app is now fully localized in 14 languages, including widely spoken languages such as German and Spanish, ensuring a more inclusive experience for global users. This localization:

Supports 14 languages, including major global languages.
Bridges language gaps to enhance accessibility for international users.
Promotes a personalized experience across diverse regions, boosting global engagement.

App detects vehicle-like speed and suppresses workout/step logging to prevent malicious activity.

Feed posts for workouts can now include a swipeable image carousel.

After saving a workout, users can create a collage combining selfie + workout stats, optionally hiding the route map.

Official company announcements now appear in the main feed.

Feed posts (including carousels) can include tappable links.

Library articles and videos can be targeted by demographics & health concerns and are fully localised.

Redesigned share card supports captions, hashtags, and multiple images.

HR announcements can include PDFs alongside captions, mentions, links, and images.

Announcements can now embed videos along with links, PDFs, and images.

Users can submit NPS feedback on wellbeing programs directly in-app.

Participants may skip survey questions or add free-text comments.

Admins can create, modify, or delete teams directly from the dashboard.

HRs can filter engagement metrics over time by age, gender, department, or geography.

Profile Gender now offers Male / Female / Non-binary / Prefer not to say options.

Users can now invite coworkers to join Vantage Fit and any open challenges directly from the app.

Summary page now shows active-vs-resting calorie burn with a daily trend chart.

Users may permanently erase their Vantage Fit account and data from Settings.

New badge automatically awarded when a user enters the top-10 of any challenge leaderboard.

HR-configurable Employee-Assistance banners now appear in the feed and link to resources.

HRs can host live or recorded wellness webinars; users watch and track attendance in-app.

Virtual-journey challenges with milestone map, next-stop preview, and points rewards.

HRs create events. Users RSVP and view an in-app event calendar.

Launch of Vantage Fit for MS Teams with core features like Feed, Challenges, Library, Events, and Wallet.

Upon finishing a challenge, participants automatically receive a personalised certificate via email.

Journey challenges now support team participation and shared progress.

Pre-built templates make it easy to launch themed journey challenges.

Users can connect Garmin devices to sync step counts into Vantage Fit.

Users may choose not to share their date of birth or age in their profile.

Users can log doctor visits and attach documents or images for personal records.

All user health data is now encrypted at rest on Vantage Fit servers.

Users can purchase additional points via card payment to complete a redemption if short on balance.

Full UI and notifications now available in German and Spanish (French already supported).

Admins can bulk-add employees to the platform or directly into a challenge via CSV upload.

Users can now change their Vantage Fit password directly in the app’s settings.

The workout-tracking algorithm adjusts to real-time GPS signal quality and weather conditions for more reliable distance and pace data.

Fitbit integration upgraded to import the past 30 days of step data (up from 7 days) when you connect your device.

Updated GPS sampling and sensor fusion reduce battery drain during outdoor workouts while maintaining accuracy.

Introduced an hour-by-hour steps chart that highlights abnormal spikes, helping detect malicious or nefarious tracking attempts.

Added Visa e-gift cards (USD) to the redemption catalog, redeemable across all supported geographies.

Challenge start and end times now honor each participant’s local timezone (e.g., Monday 00:00 triggers at the user’s own Monday midnight).

iOS users can log in or create an account instantly using their Apple ID, with private-relay email for enhanced privacy.

Guided mindfulness sessions can now be assigned as tasks within challenges and count toward completion goals.

When sharing workouts or badges to the social feed, users can add hashtags to improve discoverability and engagement.

Camera-based squat tracker upgraded with smarter pose detection recognizing side views, varied clothing, and ignoring extra people.

Wallet supports live conversion rates, lets users redeem multiple gift cards in a single order, and includes 'Resend Gift Card' option.

Health articles, podcasts, and videos can now be part of challenge tasks—users complete them by answering a short quiz confirming consumption.

Enhanced GPS and sensor sampling logic minimises battery drain during long-duration outdoor activities like running or cycling.

Indoor workouts tracked using Apple Watch—like treadmill runs or spinning—can now be imported into Vantage Fit for unified history.

All achievement badges now feature refreshed designs and smooth entry animations to enhance reward visibility and engagement.

Group-based challenges where a team works together to complete a shared step goal—e.g., walk 1 million steps together.

Users now receive gentle reminders to check in with how they’re feeling and log their mood regularly.

Users can manually log workouts for new categories like snow shovelling, gardening, sports, calisthenics, pilates, and strength training.

Admin dashboard includes per-task completion analytics for multi-task challenges, with steps-only leaderboards alongside rankings.

Admins can view mood-trend graphs across departments, time periods, and demographics—insight into emotional well-being at scale.

Admins can upload unique banner images and customize highlight colors for each challenge and weekly tasks to match campaign branding.

Users can set hydration, mood, and other wellness reminders for times that suit their personal schedules.

Users can view rules, scoring criteria, and terms of a challenge clearly before joining.

Tapping any badge reveals its description, unlock criteria, and detailed artwork.

During gift card redemption, users are shown an itemised bill with all costs and charges before confirming the order.

Automatic unit localisation: distances in miles + fluid ounces for US users; kilometres + litres for UK/metric regions.

Home screen now shows separate rings for daily steps and calorie-burn targets.

Each task card displays percentage complete and a ✔ or ! badge to show finished vs. pending for today.

Users can now share newly earned badges as posts in the company social feed.

Added animated heart-beat, refined optical algorithm, and gentle haptics for more accurate and engaging camera-based HR readings.

Updated step-count algorithm ensures live, always-up-to-date step totals throughout the day.

Admins can attach and update unique T&C documents for each challenge; participants view them in-app before joining.

COVID-era challenge converts indoor steps into equivalent distance and ranks participants on a distance leaderboard.

Social feed posts now include the workout’s route map image alongside distance, pace, and stats.

Introduced OTP-based sign-in and employee-ID onboarding for blue-collar employees without corporate email.

Dashboard now plots average mood scores by department, age group, gender, country, and tracks organizational mood trends over time.

Summary page shows if the user is in a calorie surplus or deficit based on food intake and activity level.

Users can log foods not found in the database by naming the item and entering calorie values manually.

Employees can now reach out for help directly from the app via live chat support.

New in-app library of guided sessions including meditation, 5-minute sleep relaxation, and breathing exercises.

Added FAQ section where users can browse answers to common questions within the app.

Refreshed mood-logging screen with animated feedback and improved usability.

The app is now available in French, marking the first step toward full multi-language support.

Dashboard now includes expenditure analytics showing reward distribution by challenge, department, and date range.

Expanded the Health Articles module into a full Library with curated podcasts and videos to support holistic wellness.

Uses the phone’s camera and real-time motion detection to count squats, track form, and log reps—no wearables required.

New customizable weekly challenge with multiple task types (steps, water, meals, distance) that progress week-to-week regardless of completion.

Users can form or join teams, send invites, and compete on a cumulative team leaderboard across all challenge formats.

Users can now connect their Fitbit account to sync daily step counts directly into Vantage Fit.

Log current mood on a 1–5 scale, choose a reason, and add comments to track emotional wellbeing over time.

HR admins can now build multi-week, multi-task (custom) challenges directly from the dashboard.

Create private challenges with selected participants, set up teams, and manage team rosters from the dashboard.

Improved GPS algorithms deliver more accurate distance and pace metrics during outdoor workouts.

Measure resting heart rate by placing a finger over the phone camera—30-second optical analysis estimates BPM.

Instant alerts when you enter/exit top 10, overtake others, or are overtaken on any challenge leaderboard.

Standalone Watch app displays daily challenge progress, leaderboard standing, and offers watch-face complications.

Dedicated mobile tab for challenges and a unified daily page showing meal + water logs.

View leaderboards filtered by department or gender with faster load times.

Dashboard adds country segmentation and variable reward scaling so incentives align with local purchasing power.

Automatically import outdoor run, walk, and cycling workouts recorded on Apple Watch into Vantage Fit history.

Log untracked activities such as badminton, soccer, hiking, swimming, or gym sessions by duration or distance.

Admins can now create and publish health-and-wellness articles targeted to their employee groups; articles appear in the app’s content feed.

Revamped feed lets users @mention colleagues, and like or reply to specific comments, making engagement richer and more interactive.

New corporate users sign in, accept T&C, enter body metrics, and get a BMR-based calorie baseline.

Automatic step capture via Apple Health (iOS) and Google Fit (Android).

Mon–Sun company leaderboard showing who logged the most steps.

Milestone badges awarded for key achievements.

Push alerts for new badges and weekly top-stepper.

Lifetime leaderboard tracking cumulative steps since joining.

Interactive charts for average daily steps across week, month, and year.

Six-month weight trend line for users who log weight entries.

App-server communication verifies identity and encrypts sensitive data.

Hub to adjust goals and record vitals like BP, cholesterol, diabetes status.

Gamified multi-week challenge with escalating daily step targets.

Employees log in via corporate HRMS single-sign-on.

Flexible challenge: e.g., 8,000 steps on 20 of 30 days.

Earn points in challenges and redeem digital gift vouchers.

Reports on average activity levels and challenge completions.

Log meals with calorie & macro lookup; record daily water intake.

Company-wide feed for wellness updates and achievements.

Share workout stats and route snapshot to social feed.

GPS-based tracker for runs, walks, cycling with distance, pace, map.

New challenge where participants compete by logging the highest total activity.

Dashboard adds department-level and demographic (age, gender) reporting.

New challenge type with a single cumulative goal (e.g., 1 million steps in 30 days) instead of daily targets.

Added workplace SSO via Google, Facebook, and Microsoft accounts.

Automatic breakfast, lunch, snack, and water-intake reminders to nudge healthier daily habits.

Share achievements to LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Instagram, and more with a single tap.

Added science-backed 7-minute HIIT routine with voice cues and timers.

Learn More About Our Features

Revamped App Homepage & Notification Bell

A fresh look for your daily wellness hub. The Vantage Fit app homepage has been completely redesigned with a cleaner layout, smarter content organization, and a new notification bell — making it easier than ever for employees to stay on top of their wellness journey.

Smart Recognition on Social Feed

The social feed just got smarter. Vantage Fit now automatically celebrates the top 3 performers in every challenge — posting recognition moments to the social feed so achievements are visible, celebrated, and shared across the organization.

MFA-Enabled Secure Reward Redemptions

Reward redemptions just got more secure. Employees now verify gift card redemptions with a one-time password (OTP) directly in the app — adding an extra layer of protection while keeping the experience fast and frictionless.

Targeted Challenges by Health Insights

HR teams can now create wellness challenges targeted at specific health risk groups identified through Health Data Upload. Design programs for employees with elevated cholesterol, vitamin deficiencies, or other biomarker concerns — driving truly personalized wellness at scale.

Activity Conversion: Every Move Counts

Not every workout involves steps. With Activity Conversion, employees can now convert yoga, cycling, swimming, and 30+ other activities into equivalent step counts — ensuring every form of movement is recognized and rewarded in challenges.

The Relevance of an Activity Tracker in the Corporate World

The availability of fitness trackers has made life easier for corporate employees. Being heavily stressed, employees fail to realize it even if their health deteriorates.

Focused Chat Rooms: Building A Wellness Community At Work

In today’s fast-paced work environment, finding support, inspiration, and a sense of community around wellness can make all the difference. Focused Chat Rooms on Vantage Fit create a space where employees can connect with each other on specific wellness topics, from fitness and mental health to nutrition and beyond.

Heart Rate Monitor: Positives, Mechanism, Healthy Exercises

A heart rate monitor keeps a tab on an individual's heart rate, thereby helping one be more cautious. In the process, it also promotes a wellness culture by putting more emphasis on employee health. Therefore, you must use this tool to the maximum.

Mood Meters: A New Corporate Health And Wellness Initiative

The Vantage Fit mood meter helps employees to keep track of their daily moods. It has a great influence on employees' behavioral health. Employees can easily deal with challenging attitudes when they have this system in place.

Sweaty Selfies - Celebrating Fitness Milestones and Motivation

The Sweaty Selfie trend is transforming workplace wellness, and Vantage Fit is here to support your journey. By embracing this trend and using our wellness app platform, you can create a dynamic, effective wellness program.

Elevating Employee Wellbeing with Corporate Wellness Dashboards

Today, organizations are making employee wellbeing their top priority. They are realizing the importance of wellbeing at workplace. Every employer wants a healthy and engaged workforce for increased productivity. This can be easily achieved with corporate wellness dashboard.

Embarking on a Virtual Adventure mode: Journey Challenge

Join us as we bring you our journey challenge designed for your employees to traverse the globe while reaching significant virtual milestones. Walk around the map of exciting wonders and cities and enjoy the thrilling virtual voyage.

Nutrition Tracker: An Essential Feature for Optimal Wellness

A nutrition tracker is important. However, in its presence, one should not forget about physical activity, which is as important as the diet plan. Good health results from exercise, movement, and a diet filled with healthy nutrients.

Vantage Fit Web App: Get Access to Your Wellness Activities on the Web

Carrying out physical activities and maintaining a healthy lifestyle have become a priority nowadays. Although healthy living is essential, it is a difficult chore and requires motivation and determination. This has led to the inception of multiple online wellness platforms.

From Knowledge to Action: Supporting Employee Health Through Dedicated Wellness Content

Today's workplace wellness has become an essential requirement as workplace initiatives continue to evolve. With the new 'Content as a Task' feature from Vantage Fit, HR professionals can seamlessly integrate educational tasks into wellness campaigns, addressing a wide range of health concerns.

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